Mirror's Edge is a first-person action-adventure game focused on parkour and free-running. Set in a heavily surveilled city, players control Faith, a courier who traverses rooftops using wall-runs, jumps, and slides to deliver sensitive information. The gameplay emphasizes momentum and fluid movement over combat, with a focus on finding the fastest path through urban environments. In a near-future city where an authoritarian government controls the media and monitors its citizens, Faith Connors works as a Runner, an underground parkour courier who physically carries sensitive messages to avoid surveillance. When a reformist political candidate is murdered and Faith's twin sister Kate, a police officer, is framed for the killing, Faith races across the city's rooftops to uncover the conspiracy behind the assassination. Her investigation leads her to a private security firm running a covert program designed to eliminate Runners, and she discovers that trusted allies are not what they seem.
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Contemporary, grave, plot-driven and earnest.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
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- Platforms
- PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360
- Developer
- EA Digital Illusions CE
- Publisher
- Electronic Arts
- Released
- November 11, 2008
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- First person
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 3
- Time to beat
- 2.5 h rushed · 6 h main story · 11 h completionist
IGDB rating 7.5/10 from 978 ratings.
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